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Flores, Dora <br />From: <br />alexandria cornejo < <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, March 5, 2024 6:56 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />ITEM 18 - the Ceasefire Resolution <br />Hello my name is Alexandria, and I urge the council to support Item 18, the Ceasefire Resolution. As voted appointees it <br />is your civil and moral duty to listen to and support your constituents, the very people that vote you to sit in that seat. <br />Your constituents have been coming to every city council meeting for the past 5 months pleading with you, their city <br />leaders to do everything in your limited amount of federal governmental power to call for an end to the genocide Israel <br />is committing on Palestinians with our $2,803,381 tax dollars that THIS very city of Santa Ana contributed to Israel's <br />military budget. As you are already aware, Collins Aerospace located in the city of Santa Ana is a subsidiary of RTX. RTX <br />and it's subsidiaries manufacture parts for fighter jets that have been used to horrifically slaughter innocent men, <br />women, and children in Gaza for the past 151 days. Alexander Odeh a Palestinian acclaimed educator and poet (whomst <br />the city normally honors) was murdered by a pipe bomb in 1986 by Andy Green who then fled the United States to safe <br />harbor in Israel. Andy Green has since changed his name and has been credited as the main organizer of the daily <br />blockade gathering of Israelis to maliciously prevent crucial aid to any human within Gaza. SANTA ANA IS FOREVER TIED <br />TO THIS GENOCIDE WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. You have the power to determine if our local government is on the <br />right or criminal side of history. Your grandchildren's children will learn about this time in their history classes or through <br />whatever social media evolves into. They will read about the unspeakable acts we have all witnessed in real time... will <br />you stand proud and tell them you took a stand for humanity and had empathy? Or will you cower, avoid the subject for <br />the rest of your life as to never feel accountable on remaining complicit in Santa Ana's involvement in the Palestinian <br />Genocide? It is absolutely critical for you to pass this ceasefire resolution NOW. We will never forget. <br />Thank you, <br />Alexandria Cornejo <br />35 <br />